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HelpPlease · April 5th, 2002, 07:08 PM

Hello,
I have just started my second topic and again it is need of help. This time it is my own computer not anyone elses. Well you see about a week ago or so I accidently went to this one website, **DELETED** and it showed up saying something about trusting the site and saying yes or no. (I use internet explorer) and I did indeed say yes because I don't know this site. Well it started downloading something and then quickly started over to installing. I didn't think much of it and found out the sites true purpose and left it to do other things. I was piled high with stuff that it took me two or so hours to find out that my desktop's icons were all gone. Well this had happened before so I restarted my computer and they were still gone. I did a full shut down and yet they were still gone. I thought it was probably the thing that downloaded itself so I did a restore. YOu know when you go into dos and put in scanreg/restore. Well I did for the previous day because I hadn't done anything. Well when I came back it was ungodly slow and stayed that way forever. I finally asked some people in yahoo chat and they said to check the control, alt, delete files and see if there were anything unusual open. I did find something by the name of "winoldap" and shut it down to see what it did. NOw I had never seen it before and I always do control, alt, delete to shut down things that aren't responding. My computer suddenly got faster and I had no more troubles. That was until I shut it down and the next day came back to do work. I found it again ungodly slow and did the control, alt, delete thing again and I again went faster. But this time I didn't stay like that for long. It came back. Well I did a virus scan and that didn't help and I also did msconfig, then went to startup tab to stop it from starting up. Well it wasn't there either. That is what it has been doing for a week and today I said this is enough. Well, when I said that all my icons left me again. Can you guys help me out and tell me what I should do?? I would really appreciate it.

SPECIFICATIONS OF COMP:
It is an IBM. An older version. Windows 98. I don't think there really are any other specifications expect to say that I used AVG Antivirus free edition to do the scanning.

Again thank you.

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April 5th, 2002, 07:08 PM	#1 (permalink)
HelpPlease Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Iowa, United states Posts: 116	Slow computer, dumb computer, troubled computer, who knows!! Hello, I have just started my second topic and again it is need of help. This time it is my own computer not anyone elses. Well you see about a week ago or so I accidently went to this one website, DELETED and it showed up saying something about trusting the site and saying yes or no. (I use internet explorer) and I did indeed say yes because I don't know this site. Well it started downloading something and then quickly started over to installing. I didn't think much of it and found out the sites true purpose and left it to do other things. I was piled high with stuff that it took me two or so hours to find out that my desktop's icons were all gone. Well this had happened before so I restarted my computer and they were still gone. I did a full shut down and yet they were still gone. I thought it was probably the thing that downloaded itself so I did a restore. YOu know when you go into dos and put in scanreg/restore. Well I did for the previous day because I hadn't done anything. Well when I came back it was ungodly slow and stayed that way forever. I finally asked some people in yahoo chat and they said to check the control, alt, delete files and see if there were anything unusual open. I did find something by the name of "winoldap" and shut it down to see what it did. NOw I had never seen it before and I always do control, alt, delete to shut down things that aren't responding. My computer suddenly got faster and I had no more troubles. That was until I shut it down and the next day came back to do work. I found it again ungodly slow and did the control, alt, delete thing again and I again went faster. But this time I didn't stay like that for long. It came back. Well I did a virus scan and that didn't help and I also did msconfig, then went to startup tab to stop it from starting up. Well it wasn't there either. That is what it has been doing for a week and today I said this is enough. Well, when I said that all my icons left me again. Can you guys help me out and tell me what I should do?? I would really appreciate it. SPECIFICATIONS OF COMP: It is an IBM. An older version. Windows 98. I don't think there really are any other specifications expect to say that I used AVG Antivirus free edition to do the scanning. Again thank you. You will not post any copyrighted material, nor link to any copyrighted material (with the exception of publicly available sites and pages that the legal owners of said copyrights have created for material freely available to the general public), unless said copyright is owned by you or by TechIMO.com. You will not use these forums for the purposes of sharing or distributing viruses, licenses, protected registration information, illegal software keys, key generators, cracks, or any other information designed to cause harm, damage, fear, terror, loss of productivity, time or work, or to allow unlawful and illegal access to any computer hardware, software, network, or any other system. Please take the time to read the TechIMO FAQ here http://www.techimo.com/forum/misc.php?action=faq Sorry linking to sites that have illegal material is against board policy, even if your primary purpose is not to distribute it. I understand you are new here, so just read through the policies to see what is allowed and not allowed here. Have a good evening . -Edited by AuraEdge Last edited by AuraEdge : April 5th, 2002 at 08:47 PM.